How Do We Make The Internet Beautiful?

Thursday, June 18, 2026

Good morning, Twfw. O/

Robins sing the approaching dawn like a choir of single note synthesizers finding harmonies for an 8-bit video game soundtrack called: Today.

Lights on, rain falls, on with the show...

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Lots of thoughts on Beauty and AI and humanity's responsibilities to language the past few mornings... got me thinking: How do we make The Internet Beautiful?

All things have the capacity for Beauty, so how about online?

At present, The Internet is a mob of toddlers in a mosh pit.

Most social media applications look like a pre-school at recess.

How do we get our screens to Beautiful?

What does The Internet growing up well look like?

It's a joy for me, a Poet, to consider because in order for the online word to mature people are going to have to recognize and respect the powers of the written word.

Our understanding of the capability of language is limited by the stories of our ancestors. The old tales lacked the materials we have available today to strengthen their metaphors.

Shakespeare wrote 'All the World's a stage,' though I'm sure he'd change stage to open-world video game if he were alive today.

Language consistently needs to be made new. It's the biggest hazard of AI: resting on our laurels.

What the heck is a laurel? It's a trophy given for victory in a time of peace.

Well... it used to be. We use medals, titles, and money for laurels these days.

But we were discussing making The Internet beautiful before the laurels descended...

"We just make it a joy forever."
-Favorite Reader Who Knows About a Deceased Co-worker of Mine

How do we make language creation and the digital sharing of it a timeless joy?

We recognize the gift that is the written word. These are just well calculated scribbles on an e-ink screen without the magical substance called reading.

Every teacher of reading is a wizard or witch with a pupil. Really.

Even Science doesn't work without the magic of reading. Seriously.

What wonder exists that makes reading possible?

Scientists try to measure it, but they need to use it to do the measuring.

Applying objective measurements to reading and writing is like trying to measure water by making it wet.

Huh?

Respect, reverence, wonder for the powers of the written word. Let's start there... let's share from there.

We'll take The Internet from a toddler's mismanaged recess to an Art School Forum during The Age of The Renaissance.